Posted on 07/18/2002 9:03:50 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:34:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The story of the recent death and
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The ideas lag a bit behind, you know. The future will be sexless.
So Aztecs did invent the vacation? Dogs fly spaceships? And men and women are the same sex? Everything I know is wrong?
My future won't be sexless, if I have anything to say about it. You enjoy yours...
The post-millenial policy: sexless life is better after death.
I believe the initial motivation was to preserve "the Splendid Splinter" for DNA harvesting. It was even proposed that they could preserve only his head.
What I was suggesting is that Ted's son (DNA recipient) was a marketing liability for the claim that Ted's DNA will produce the next .400 hitter.
No. That's what the sister says, but it's not why people are cryonically suspended. Only the head is preserved because it's cheaper, and the assumption is that whatever technology can repair the damage of cryonics can also grow a new body onto the head. It has nothing to do with DNA harvesting.
What I was suggesting is that Ted's son (DNA recipient) was a marketing liability for the claim that Ted's DNA will produce the next .400 hitter.
Only to people ignorant of basic genetics. The son only has half his father's DNA. Unless his mother was also a great ballplayer (and if we ignore regression toward the mean as well) there's no reason to suppose that he would have gotten the baseball genes. His son's baseball ability is is utterly irrelevant to the value of Ted Williams' DNA, which in turn is utterly irrelevant to the reason that he's being frozen.
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